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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 5h

30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 6h

Hard to overstate how useless Tapper is here in the face of a wall of craven lies and mendacity

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 8h

One of the more hopeful things from there recently — dozens of young people in front of Kazanskii Sobor (Kazan Cathedral) right in the heart of St. Petersburg singing the exiled rapper Noize MC's firmly anti-Putin “Cooperative Swan Lake” (see lyrics in @antongerashchenko.bsky.social's next post)

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15h

An 18-year-old Russian singer, Diana "Naoko" Loginova, who recently performed anti-war songs on Nevsky Prospect in Russia's St. Petersburg, has been brought to court, in handcuffs.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h

A small crowd of young people gathered in central St. Petersburg, Russia, to sing anti-war and anti-Kremlin songs, led by 18-year-old performer Diana Loginova.

Then she was arrested.

A music student sang protest songs in St. Petersburg. Then she was arrested.

The rare act of protest comes as Russia has cracked down on the arts, forcing out those who disagree with its war on Ukraine and quashing any acts of dissent.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 15h

obligatory …

Normal calm @normal_now
Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Business class and the
professor is writing like "profit = revenue
- costs" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school
4:49 PM • 2/26/19 - Twitter for Android

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, this is shameful, wildly out of the Treasury Secretary’s lane, he should resign, & we should have some thoughtful reflection from everyone who told us he was a credible Cabinet choice because he went to the right schools & cocktail parties:

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "All I hear from the Europeans is that Putin is coming to Warsaw. There are very few things in life I am sure about. I am sure he's not coming to Boston."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/orig...

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 1d

I know some people (full disclosure: I mean me) who would be profoundly interested.

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 2d

lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lckf...

Jim E. Brown - I'm Quitting Prozac to Continue Drinking

YouTube video by Jim E. Brown

www.youtube.com

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Posts @porgus.bsky.social · 2d

The year is 2026. The #1 brand of cooking oil in the US is state-owned GayWoke Soybean Oil ™. It's banned by the FDA because soy smacks of gender. Everyone is required to buy two gallons per week because it's vital for the economy.

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Stephen Miller yet again for thinking he can thread the f'cking needle of being a Jewish white nationalist

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 2d

Oop, oh dear. There you have it folks, Phil Scott just doesn't want to be *embarrassed* by continuing to be a member of that cesspool fascist white nationalist political party bsky.app/profile/jdan...

Most people call me…jim @jdandeneau.bsky.social · 2d

Phil Scott endorsing known white supremacist Sam Douglass

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 2d

Okay but why is Phil Scott still a member of that cesspool white nationalist political party?
bsky.app/profile/verm...

Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 2d

On Tuesday evening, Gov. Phil Scott called on Sen. Samuel Douglass to resign after a leaked group chat showed Douglass and his wife using racist and antisemitic language with fellow young Republicans from across the country.

Republican state senator faces calls to resign after posting racist messages in group chat

A first-term Republican state senator from Orleans County is facing pressure from members of his own party to resign after a story published by Politico Tuesday detailed his involvement in a racist te...

www.vermontpublic.org

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 2d

Okay but why is Phil Scott still a member of that cesspool fascist political party?

VTDigger @vtdigger.bsky.social · 7d

Vermont’s Republican governor also said he would be at “the forefront” of people defending Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should the president make good on a social media threat to arrest Pritzker.

Gov. Phil Scott says Trump’s national guard deployments are unconstitutional - VTDigger

Vermont’s Republican governor also said he would be at “the forefront” of people defending Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should the president make good on a social media threat to arrest Pritzk...

vtdigger.org

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 3d

Quantum Wall, VIII (For Arshile Gorky, My First Love In Painting), by Jack Whitten, 2017, 📸 via @TouchlineX

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 4d

Think John must have an old map, this one that they just provided on Air Force One clearly shows that Qatar and Iran obviously share a land border.

The map is the same one in the post I am quoting of the region that clearly shows that the Persian Gulf separates the Arabian Peninsula where Qatar is located from Iran. But I have doctored by drawing black lines into the Gulf extending both countries like Trump did way back when with the hurricane forecast with a sharpie.

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 4d

Happy for those getting to be part of the xkcd “today's lucky 10,000" learning this now. When it was my turn, not young, IIRC on twitter, it was a full Berenstain Bears moment: no, this can't've been true in the universe I've inhabited til now, different vegetables don't come from the same plant!

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 4d

The general principle of not trusting screenshots without a link holds here. This is not a real story, poor young woman whose photo is being shared in a fake viral story is not 31.

8-ʙɪᴛ™ @the8bitidiot.bsky.social · 4d

Free her!!!

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 4d

well the mugshot is, the real person (who is 18) was apparently arrested for a misdemeanor in Volusia cty FL a few weeks ago

(don't want to post b/c it's already kind of weird that this young woman is having her pic shared as part of a fake viral story, but reverse image search gets the real one)

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 4d

sadly not real
bsky.app/profile/merr...

merritt @merrittk.com · 4d

this is a turkish influencer

8-ʙɪᴛ™ @the8bitidiot.bsky.social · 4d

Free her!!!

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 4d

I mean c'mon

Screenshot of wikipedia article:
History [edit]
Louis Zabar, born Mordko Leib Zabarka, (1901-1950) came to the United States through Canada from Ukraine, Soviet Union, in the early 1920s. His father, also a merchant, had earlier been murdered in a pogrom in Ukraine. Louis first lived in Brooklyn, where he rented a stall in a farmer's market. He married Lillian Teitlebaum (1905-1995) on May 2,

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4d

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 4d

NY Times needs to re-hire a public editor specifically so I can yell at them for using “Czar” to describe a man who was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 5d

Tee Pup alert 🐶

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